The white square button is the minimalist tile of Emoji World—a little rounded square that screams “blank space, but make it aesthetic.” People drop it to create tidy dividers, bullet points, or pixel‑art grids, or to say “head empty, no thoughts” with elegant silence. It’s also a go‑to for making checkerboard patterns when paired with the black square button, or for cobbling together makeshift UI mockups in chat. In social posts, it can signal a pause, a clean slate, or a sarcastic “my opinion here:” followed by nothing but luminous whitespace.
On Apple devices, it looks like a soft‑cornered white square with a thin dark outline and a whisper of gray shading—almost like a tiny pressable key. That subtle bevel makes it feel like a neutral button you could tap, perfect for “press to reset” jokes or deadpan minimalism. It pops in dark mode and doubles as a sleek layout hack in bios and captions, from stan Twitter aesthetics to design‑nerd mood boards. Some use it as a gentle “white flag energy” without the flag, a flirtatiously coy blank reply, or a tidy censor block when you want to hide a word in plain sight.
Definition
iOS 5 updated this icon to a white square "button". The button is neat and we hope it has better luck than the purple circle which disappeared in iOS 5. iEmoji old name: Purple [Circle] Sphere, A round purple icon shaped like a sphere.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
804 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:white_square_button:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Geometric Shapes
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory
Geometric Shapes
Names & Annotations
WHITE SQUARE BUTTON Old name: WHITE ROUNDED SQUARE Design Note: Same shapes for e-BA3 and e-B67.
Symbol Information
U+1F533 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-B67
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#95 'New moon' 新月 U+E69C SJIS-F940 JIS-7847
KDDI
#41 大丸２ U+E54B SJIS-F767 JIS-7748
Softbank
#464 #old207 ボタン３ 「botan３」 U+E21B SJIS-F7BB
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🔳
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🔳
Decimal HTML Entity
🔳
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🔳
Hex Code Point(s)
1f533
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F533
Decimal Code Point(s)
128307
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0xB3
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 94 B3
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 224 263
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDD33
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddd33
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56627
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F533
UTF-32 Hex
01F533
UTF-32 Dec
128307
Python Src
u"\U0001F533"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x94\xb3"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDD33"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
